It is no more expected of most producers to read a book than it is, say, of Ted Williams to dust off home plate.

Wherever I travel I'm too late. The orgy has moved elsewhere.

A novel may take anywhere from two to five years to write and, in the end, you might manage a couple of thousand dollars on it, no more.

Actually, when it comes to knocking the Canadian cultural scene, nobody outdoes Canadians, myself included. We are veritable masters of self-deprecation.

If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.

The revolution eats its own. Capitalism re-creates itself.

If you don't count some of Jehovah's injunctions, there are no humorists in the Bible.